12 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
18. Nissanea patniA, Me& E.; Mycalesis patnia, B.— 
Peculiar to Ceylon. Very common at Haldummulla all the 
year round. Frequents jungle or shady road sides. Swarms 
on, the fallen fruit of Ficus and other trees, and comes readily 
to toddy or sugar, but is easily alarmed. 
The dry and wet season forms at Haldummulla vary very 
little, those caught during the drought, June—September, 
being only a little brighter in colour than those taken during 
the November—December rains. Very dark forms may be 
taken in some wet districts, and I procured a fine series at 
Kandy in June, after a very wet May, and at Deniyaya 
(Southern Province) in April. 
I have never seen it in the Northern Province, but it is very 
common in the south, at Galle and other places. 
19. Lerue pynsaTE, B. & De N.; Debis dynsate, E. ; 
Hanipha dynsate and sthala, M.—Peculiar to Ceylon, and a great 
rarity. Moore separates the variety from the hills as H. sthala. 
He says the @ differs from 9 dynsate as follows: Narrower 
discal band on fore wing, more defined apical white and black 
spots on fore wing, under side fore wing has five sub-marginal 
spots instead of four, hind wing has all the spots smaller. 
I find in my specimens that all the apical white and black 
spots on the fore wing, upper side, are better developed in my 
low-country specimen, which also has the fifth sub-marginal 
spot on the under side, though it is partly obliterated by the 
extra width of the white discal band. 
The male of the hill form is not described by Moore. 
Mine have the terminal margin of the fore wing less concave 
than my Ratnapura specimens; and the ocelli on the under side 
of the hind wing are exceedingly minute. 
I have no personal experience of the habits of the low- 
country form, as I owe my specimens to Mr. Mackwood’s 
generosity, but I have seen a fair number of the males of the 
hill form in the jungles from Haputale to Ohiya and the 
Horton Plains. On a fine morning they fly rapidly round 
the tree tops, usually settling high up. Occasionally they 
descend within reach, and a very quick stroke will catch 
them. Unfortunately their wings are very fragile, and the 
stroke must be quick, so I have damaged all I have caught. 
